Law Minister Anisul Haq told Prothom Alo on Sunday that the application has been sent by the Home Ministry to the Law Ministry. A decision on this will be taken tomorrow.
Former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia was sent to the old Dhaka Central Jail after a trial court sentenced her to five years' imprisonment in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case on 8 February 2018. Later, he was found guilty and convicted in another case of the same corruption. Year. The government, through an executive order, released him from jail for six months on 25 March 2020 on two conditions.
Since then, the government has been extending the conditional suspension of Khaleda Zia's jail term. On 12 September, his prison term was suspended for six months until 24 March.